Program Committee

Ahti Anttila is Research Director of the Mass Screening Registry of the Finnish Cancer Registry. Principal investigator in the evaluation of the Finnish cervical and breast cancer screening programs at the Mass Screening Registry.

Marc Arbyn obtained his MD diploma in 1984 at the University of Ghent (Belgium); he obtained diplomas of Dr in tropical medicine and a MSc degree in tropical epidemiology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.

Professor Jacob Bornstein MD, MPA, is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Galilee Medical Center-Nahariya, Israel. He is Full Professor and Associate Dean at the Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Medicine.

Xavier Bosch - Cancer epidemiologist and oncologist. Contributions to the research leading to the identification of the causal role of HPV in cervical cancer, international HPV type distributions in lesions and HPV impact on other cancers.

Professor Karen Canfell is Director of the Cancer Research Division at Cancer Council NSW and Adjunct Professor at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. Karen holds a D.Phil. (PhD equivalent) in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford.

Kate Cuschieri is a consultant clinical scientist in virology and Director of the Scottish HPV Reference Laboratory at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which has a remit that incorporates diagnostic testing, testing for population based surveillance and research.

Dr. Silvia de Sanjosé received her Medical degree (University of Barcelona, Spain 1980); Specialized in Family practice (University of Barcelona, Spain 1983); Master of Science in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London (1986);

Professor Suzanne Garland is an internationally recognized clinical microbiologist and sexual health physician, with particular expertise in infectious diseases as they pertain to reproductive health and the neonate.

Dr. Anna Giuliano is the founding Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer (CIRC) at the Moffitt Cancer Center and is an expert in this field with a long and successful record of NIH funding.

Mark Jit is senior scientist in the Modelling and Economics Unit of Public Health England (PHE) and senior lecturer in vaccine epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Aimée R. Kreimer is an Investigator in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and focuses her research on the etiology and prevention of humanpapillomavirus associated cancers of the head and neck and anogenital sites.

Attila Lorincz discovered and cloned several important and novel carcinogenic HPV types, including HPV31, HPV35, HPV45, HPV52 and HPV56, and pioneered the initial use of HPV DNA testing for clinical diagnostics.

Lisa Mirabello is a genetic epidemiologist whose research is focused on understanding the viral genetic basis of HPV carcinogenesis. She is a principal investigator in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

A family practitioner, Dr Steben is medical advisor at the STI unit of Quebec’s National Public Health Institute. He chairs Québec province committee on STI and member of the STI laboratory analysis committee.

Dr. Zimet is Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Psychology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. His research focuses on behavioral and social science related to HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening.